FAMU: Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Chapter on Inactive Status

By Eyewitness News&nbsp|&nbsp

Posted: Mon 5:24 PM, Dec 05, 2011&nbsp|&nbsp

Updated: Wed 10:52 AM, Dec 07, 2011

Updated 12-6-2011 // 5:45p.m. -- Tallahassee, FL

Sharon Saunders from FAMU's Office of Communication says that the arrest of several students for conspiracy and grand theft from a construction site, led to inactive status for the Beta Nu chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha.

FSU Police say on November 27, they arrested four FAMU students on FSU's campus.

Deven Brown and Christopher Chavannes were charged with grand theft.

Kevin Noble and Joshua Smith were charged with conspiracy.

FSU police say they saw Brown and Chavannes loading red bricks into a backpack from the New Wellness Center construction site at FSU.

Police say the two hopped a fence when they were spotted, and got into a car where Noble and Smith were waiting.

A total of 36 red bricks were found in bags the police say the four were trying to steal.

They told police they needed the bricks for a project and that they couldn't afford them.

Although police say they only tried to get away with 36 bricks, because they were from a construction site, third degree grand theft felony charges can still stick.

Under Florida Statue, anything stolen from a construction site, regardless of value, can be prosecuted as a third degree grand theft felony.

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